In message <60963.64.139.41.130.1107384732.squirrel_at_64.139.41.130>
"Eric Smith" <eric_at_brouhaha.com> wrote:
> The salesman was curious as to why I kept buying fuses. I explained
> what I was doing. He told me that I should just short across the
> fuse holder.
Ack!
I had a similar experience in Maplin (big UK electronics store chain) once. I
went in to buy a 5V PSU for a LAN hub. After explaining what I wanted to the
ID-ten-T behind the counter, he scuttled off to track down a PSU. What he
came back with was a 15V PSU. His response was:
"We've run out of 5V supplies, but this 15V will work fine. Don't worry,
your stuff will just drop the voltage it doesn't need."
Needless to say I thanked the salesdroid for his "advice", left and bought
one of those multivoltage "mobile phone charger" things. Last I heard, it was
still working fine.
Later.
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Received on Thu Feb 03 2005 - 02:12:12 GMT